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Optimize operations while growing and maintaining your network

When it comes to rail, everyone – passengers, operators, and infrastructure management professionals– wants the same thing: safe, affordable, reliable transportation. However, like-mindedness tends to break down when it comes to deciding how to achieve this goal.

Already demand for maintenance and growth exceeds capacity. Rail and freight operators compete for limited possession time. Passengers are intolerant of delays or discomfort in the present – even if this means increased speed and frequency in the future.

Quintiq addresses the specific challenges of infrastructure management. Whether you are a network manager or a railway infrastructure contractor, Quintiq empowers you to maximize capacity and make intelligent, financially sound decisions for operations, maintenance and growth.

NETWORK MANAGEMENT

INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT CONTRACTING

Network Management

Network management

Railway network planning challenges are wide-ranging and complex. They cover every aspect of projects and maintenance, capacity management and traffic control. They encompass long, medium, short and up-to-the-minute choices. They have to take into account rules, changing legislation and labor laws. Finalized plans then have to stand up to stakeholder scrutiny for efficiency, sustainability and responsible use of public funds.

Success lies in your ability to see the full picture. In seeing how can you best prioritize the upgrading of passenger or freight routes. Or how to most effectively plan, operate and maintain a growing transportation network. Or how to minimize delays and get trains back on schedule after a breakdown.

Quintiq gives you full visibility across all operations and planning horizons. It takes all your rules, business priorities and restrictions into account and creates plans to advance your business goals. It enables you to transmit your plans and changes in real-time to your team’s mobile devices.

Simulate alternative scenarios to prepare for disruptions and make investment decisions.

Responsiveness

Respond to unplanned events in real time to minimize the impact of disruptions.

Capacity optimization

Increase your operational efficiency and asset utilization.

Flexibility

Opt for a scalable solution that grows with your needs and network.

For every planning horizon and across all operations, Quintiq empowers you to make decisions that are in the best interest of operators, passengers and your bottom line.

Infrastructure management contracting

Infrastructure management contracting

Railway infrastructure contractors face tough and unique challenges. Projects spread over large areas. Teams and machinery need transport and accommodation or storage. Any number of circumstances or last-minute events – bad weather, unfriendly terrain, remote locations, short and fragmented work windows – slow down a project. When schedules overlook a specific requirement or violate a constraint, it could mean you are working at sub-optimal capacity – or not at all.

With so many external factors beyond your control, how do you maximize possession time and plan for the highest returns?

Quintiq’s integrated and adaptive planning solution enables you generate plans that take into account all assets, business and project requirements, rules and constraints. Plan for the long-term and then, when circumstances change, make the necessary updates in real time.

Bidding support

Analyze how well new projects fit into your capacity plan in terms of specific resource availability to bid on projects that are both feasible and profitable.

Explore the impact of planning decisions on KPIs and make decisions that enable you to achieve your business goals.

Centralized planning

Plan employees schedules, asset management, logistics and maintenance with a single integrated solution.

Planned maintenance

Evaluate different maintenance regimes for their effects on the rest your operations.

Visibility/ transparency

Obtain company-wide visibility into operations from the strategic level down to the operational level.

Intelligent resource pairing

Ensure optimal performance by matching employee skill sets to the job and equipment.

Quintiq’s tailored solution is a cut above our current systems. It supports an integral planning process affecting all of our divisions – from project tender and work preparation units to planning departments of personnel and machines. The solution will enable better project management and more effective use of resources.